Official Language

I've just read a thought provoking article about the prospect of English as America's "official
language". I can see where the author is coming from in decrying that position as simply another
government sponsored intrusion, but, in actuality English is our de-facto "official" language here.
I live in an area with a fairly robust Hispanic population and I must admit that I'm not particularly fond of Spanish. To me, it's an ugly language, sounding more like gibberish. It's not so much the fact that there are Spanish speakers among our citizenry, but rather it seems as though they segregate themselves, with little desire to assimilate into the community at large; although I must also admit that inroads have been made in that regard. Trust is a two way street, and although when these folks came here, they did bring with them an influx of all sorts of undesirable elements, we seem to have developed at the very least a tolerance of one another.
That, and of course many of us go about armed, so all those troublesome problems like muggings and carjackings don't occur. When our grandparents came here, they understood that in order to be successful in society, one of the first orders of business is to learn the "natives' " language. Within one or two generations most immigrant families were thoroughly Americanized; so I have little doubt the same thing will occur now. As far as legislating English as our official language, we have enough bad laws already without adding another one, I say let nature take its course, and let the people speak for themselves.